Wedding of mary and joseph essay

Whatever the case may be, it is affirmed that God chose Joseph as the husband of Mary, knowing he was a “just man,” worthy to protect the new “ark of the covenant” who would bear the savior of the world.

Jewish people at that time always wanted their children to marry and have children, in great part because they knew that someday the Christ would be born from a Jewish mother. So if the Virgin Mary had made such a vow, and she told the Jewish priests about it, it’s a fairly safe bet that they would not have approved.

The Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph were truly married in a Jewish ceremony, which the Church today would of course recognize as valid. But theirs wasn’t a “typical” marriage: the Church has always taught that Mary was a virgin not only when she conceived her Son Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit, but ever afterwards.

Various traditions hold that Joseph was an older widow, while other traditions claim he was a strapping young man. In either case, there exists one narrative from the Protoevangelium of James (an early non-canonical “gospel” that preserved some oral tradition) that offers an explanation of how the two met.